NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 53% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1506 MHz
Around 55% higher boost clock speed: 2610 MHz vs 1683 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 16 nm

Launch date	2023 vs 4 December 2018
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1506 MHz
Boost clock speed	2610 MHz vs 1683 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 16 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Around 90% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 285 Watt
6.1x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 285 Watt
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
PassMark - G2D Mark	1166
PassMark - G3D Mark	26959
Geekbench - OpenCL	168049
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3854
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	417.133
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	55.476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	245.639
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2459.317

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Pascal
Code name	AD104	GP104
Launch date	2023	4 December 2018
Place in performance rating	35	not rated
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2610 MHz	1683 MHz
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	480.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	30.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	30.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5888
Pixel fill rate	167.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	480.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	285 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million	7,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	336 mm, 13.2 inches	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	1x 8-pin
Width	140 mm, 5.5 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB
Memory bandwidth	504.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6X